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Gospel concert marks 9/11 anniversary

Gospel band Pure-N-Heart is marking Friday’s 9/11 anniversary with music and a message.

Pure-N-Heart, a mass choir made up of youth from the Upstate as well as North Carolina and Georgia, will perform a “Saving Our Youth” concert and CD-release celebration at Fluor Field on Friday.

The free show, which begins at 7 p.m., also will feature a tribute to the Emanuel 9, the nine people killed at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last June, and will include family members of some of the victims.

The 350-member Pure-N-Heart ensemble, which was founded in 2003, won gospel music’s Stellar Award in 2012 for Children’s Project of the Year.

Friday’s event will open with music dedicated to the people who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.